Re: thesis touch ups...

2007-03-06 Thread Lyx Physicist
> > Ah! Finally. That was kind of a frustrating problem. Can you generate > the file directly from LyX now? I'm just curious. In the future you > might want to try working with the memoir class; you can handle these > problems more simply, I believe. > > I'm not sure about the caption problem.

Re: thesis touch ups...

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:02:15 -0600 Lyx Physicist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That worked!! Thank you so much for the help and your patience. It > was a very good learning experience! I am still very new to LaTex and > Lyx, but its people like you and mailing lists like this who help make > t

Re: thesis touch ups...

2007-03-06 Thread Lyx Physicist
> Hi Charles, > > I've fixed all your problems. At least the formatting comes out > correct when I run your document. > > Here you should use as your preamble. Get rid of the previous stuff I > told you to add. > > \makeatletter > \renewcommand\tableofcontents{% > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Another pdf question

2007-03-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard Heck wrote: Oisin Feeley wrote: Comments in PDF seem to be something that's only available using the official Adobe toolchain [snip]. On a related thread, Mircea Trandafir pointed out AREnable (http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/), which apparently transfers permissions (signed

Re: Another pdf question

2007-03-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Mircea Trandafir wrote: Maybe this would help: AREnable (http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/). To my knowledge, the way it works is that you would compile your file as PDF (in LyX) and then run AREnable on the PDF file to allow Acrobat Reader to add notes, comments etc. I never used it, but

Re: Another pdf question

2007-03-06 Thread Oisin Feeley
On 3/6/07, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oisin Feeley wrote: > Comments in PDF seem to be something that's only available using the > official Adobe toolchain [snip]. Thanks. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. But it really is silly. Not from the Adobe's perspective -- they're making p

Re: thesis touch ups...

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:21:03 -0600 Lyx Physicist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here is the entire LaTex file... I havent tried the previous > suggestion to fix the pages on the LOF, but I will get back to you > when I do. Thanks, Charles > Hi Charles, I've fixed all your problems. At lea

Re: Single column index?

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 05 March 2007 20:47, curtis osterhoudt wrote: > Hi, Steve, > > I haven't tried it yet for single-column mode (I use it for *forcing* a > 3-columned index), but the package "multicol" > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html might > work for you. In my pre

Re: Single column index?

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 05 March 2007 20:47, curtis osterhoudt wrote: > Hi, Steve, > > I haven't tried it yet for single-column mode (I use it for *forcing* a > 3-columned index), but the package "multicol" > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html might > work for you. In my pre

Re: Indexing: All my see's and seealso's no longer print index entries

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 15:59, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > All my sees and seealsos, which are in ERT at the end of the document but > before the \printindex command, no longer show up on in my index. How can I > figure out what's wrong? For some reason, if you put the ERT containing the sees

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Wojcik
John Pye wrote: Under Ubuntu, one can use the Keyboard preferences to set up a 'Compose' key (I chose 'right ALT'). Once that is done, I can open a text editor (gedit) and get all the accented characters é and ô and ñ etc very nicely. I can even get the degree symbol using the sequence of keys (

Re: RCS on Windows

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Wojcik
Alan Isaac wrote: On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik wrote: I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt working files numerous times. Perhaps relevant: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/faq.txt No, these are actual bugs in either RCS or GNU diff. I've worked with RCS since the lat

Re: thesis touch ups...

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Tremblay
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:21:36 -0600 Lyx Physicist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Paul, > Sorry for the delay in replying. So, I got the thesis exported in > LaTex on my Mac with all the images etc. I ran it 5-6 times, and I am > still not getting anything different. Here is what I have.

Re: Equation numbering in different document classes

2007-03-06 Thread Richard Heck
Gary wrote: > Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Richard, maybe I didn't understand what you were saying. > \renewcommand{\chaptername}{} > Where am I supposed to add this line? In an ERT box? > You can put it in the preamble. > \renewcommand{\theequation}{\thesection.\arabic{equation}} > This

Re: Equation numbering in different document classes

2007-03-06 Thread Gary
Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David, Richard thanks. David your suggestion worked like a charm. Richard, maybe I didn't understand what you were saying. \renewcommand{\chaptername}{} Where am I supposed to add this line? In an ERT box? \renewcommand{\theequation}{\thesection.\arabic{equation

Re: Another pdf question

2007-03-06 Thread Richard Heck
Oisin Feeley wrote: > Comments in PDF seem to be something that's only available using the > official Adobe toolchain [snip]. Thanks. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. But it really is silly. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Profess

Re: Another pdf question

2007-03-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Richard Heck schrieb: Thanks to Uwe for the example file. Here's another question: How can one enable the commenting feature under Acrobat? Buy Acrobat, the commenting feature is only available in Acrobat Standard and higher. regards Uwe

Indexing: All my see's and seealso's no longer print index entries

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, All my sees and seealsos, which are in ERT at the end of the document but before the \printindex command, no longer show up on in my index. How can I figure out what's wrong? Thanks SteveT

Re: Should the Index show up in your table of contents?

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 14:17, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tuesday 06 March 2007 13:57, Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Should your index show up in your table of contents? I notice on most > > > of the tech books I've bought at the bookstore it does, but it seems to

Re: Should the Index show up in your table of contents?

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 13:57, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > > Should your index show up in your table of contents? I notice on most of > > the tech books I've bought at the bookstore it does, but it seems to be > > missing by default in my two LyX books. Any idea h

Re: Should the Index show up in your table of contents?

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
Thanks Richard, Indeed that worked with a default index, but by the time I got through redefining \theindex to be 1 column, tocbibind no longer worked its magic. I think I'm looking for a much lower level solution, like some way to mark the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to insert itself in the table of con

Re: Should the Index show up in your table of contents?

2007-03-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: Should your index show up in your table of contents? I notice on most of the tech books I've bought at the bookstore it does, but it seems to be missing by default in my two LyX books. Any idea how to get it to show up? Steve, My book has the index list

Re: Another pdf question

2007-03-06 Thread Oisin Feeley
Comments in PDF seem to be something that's only available using the official Adobe toolchain, e.g. this comment in the discussions to a recent (end of 2006) survey of PDF applications on GNU/Linux seems to sum up the situation: http://applications.linux.com/comments.pl?sid=37658&op=&threshold=0

Re: Another pdf question

2007-03-06 Thread Mircea Trandafir
Maybe this would help: AREnable (http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/). To my knowledge, the way it works is that you would compile your file as PDF (in LyX) and then run AREnable on the PDF file to allow Acrobat Reader to add notes, comments etc. I never used it, but it might work. Mircea P

Re: urgent: using 'block' and '\item' in beamer presentation class?

2007-03-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Chen wrote: Dear there, How can I use 'block' environment in the beamer presentation class? Simply choose 'block' environment from the drop list only gives error. What error? I would like to have: my algorithm(block title) first step (in itemize environment) second step(in itemize e

Re: Should the Index show up in your table of contents?

2007-03-06 Thread Richard Heck
tocbibind: http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=tocbibind. Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Should your index show up in your table of contents? I notice on most of the > tech books I've bought at the bookstore it does, but it seems to be missing > by default in my two LyX bo

Re: Equation numbering in different document classes

2007-03-06 Thread Richard Heck
Gary wrote: > I'm writing my thesis using lyx. > I'm not exactly sure what class to use. All of the things you mention can be redefined fairly easily. You might want to look at the koma-script classes, which have a lot of built-in customization possibilities. The documentation is very complete. Yo

urgent: using 'block' and '\item' in beamer presentation class?

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Chen
Dear there, How can I use 'block' environment in the beamer presentation class? Simply choose 'block' environment from the drop list only gives error. I would like to have: my algorithm(block title) first step (in itemize environment) second step(in itemize environment) www.lyx.org is not acces

Re: Another pdf question

2007-03-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Richard Heck wrote: Thanks to Uwe for the example file. Here's another question: How can one enable the commenting feature under Acrobat? This is really useful for proofs and the like. I'd love to be able to index comments this way on students' papers. I'm pretty sure you need Acrobat Pro to e

Re: Equation numbering in different document classes

2007-03-06 Thread David L. Johnson
Gary wrote: Hi, I'm writing my thesis using lyx. I'm not exactly sure what class to use. The problem is this: If I use the book class, the top level sectioning environment is chapter and the numbering of the equations inherit the chapter number. Equation's on chapter 1 will be numbered: 1.1, 1

Equation numbering in different document classes

2007-03-06 Thread Gary
Hi, I'm writing my thesis using lyx. I'm not exactly sure what class to use. The problem is this: If I use the book class, the top level sectioning environment is chapter and the numbering of the equations inherit the chapter number. Equation's on chapter 1 will be numbered: 1.1, 1.2 ... and on

Re: thesis touch ups...

2007-03-06 Thread Lyx Physicist
> What do you mean that the numbering is okay for the list of tables? Do > you mean that both the right page appears and that no numbering appears > on the first page? > > I think in order for me to help you, I would need you to get the images > in the right location. Otherwise I can't tell if th

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-06 Thread William Adams
On Mar 6, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > There's budget for a human indexer, as long as the indexer is me > (the author). Got it. > So as the human indexer, how do I make this thing an index instead > of a > concordance? A concordance is just a list of words in a document w/ referenc

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-06 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote: > In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program to > list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file). ... > My program, which is written in Ruby, is licensed GNU GPL > version 2, and is included as the remainder

Another pdf question

2007-03-06 Thread Richard Heck
Thanks to Uwe for the example file. Here's another question: How can one enable the commenting feature under Acrobat? This is really useful for proofs and the like. I'd love to be able to index comments this way on students' papers. Richard -- ===

Re: Indexing: Using a "see" reference to a second level entry?

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 09:21, Helge Hafting wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > In my index, under the first level heading "attitude", I > > have "Troubleshooter's Mantra": > > > > attitude > > Troubleshooter's Mantra 10-13 > > > > I also want to have this: > > > > Troubleshooter's

Re: Indexing: Using a "see" reference to a second level entry?

2007-03-06 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, In my index, under the first level heading "attitude", I have "Troubleshooter's Mantra": attitude Troubleshooter's Mantra 10-13 I also want to have this: Troubleshooter's Mantra, see attitude/Troubleshooter's Mantra So I tried this: \index{philosophy|see

FYI: www.lyx.org / wiki.lyx.org currently down

2007-03-06 Thread christian . ridderstrom
FYI, www.lyx.org, wiki.lyx.org and other domains that are all hosted on the same machine (i.e. aussie.lyx.org) are down for some unknown reason. Regards /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Indexing: Using a "see" reference to a second level entry?

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, In my index, under the first level heading "attitude", I have "Troubleshooter's Mantra": attitude Troubleshooter's Mantra 10-13 I also want to have this: Troubleshooter's Mantra, see attitude/Troubleshooter's Mantra So I tried this: \index{philosophy|see{attitude!Troubleshoo

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 08:25, William Adams wrote: > While such utilities can be useful for the naïve user, they don't > result in an index, so much as a concordance, and the difference > between the two should be kept in mind. > > Rather than relying on such, if the project and budget warrant it

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 02:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > > Indexing is the most distasteful, boring, and tedious part of writing a > > book. Making word lists like this at least makes it a brainless > > activity. > > I've linked to this thread from the foll

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-06 Thread William Adams
While such utilities can be useful for the naïve user, they don't result in an index, so much as a concordance, and the difference between the two should be kept in mind. Rather than relying on such, if the project and budget warrant it, far better to employ a human indexer (who is _not_ als

Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]

2007-03-06 Thread Urtzi Jauregi
On Monday 05 March 2007 18:30:13 Georg Baum wrote: > This looks like a bug in LyX. You should not need to load any package in > the preamble manually. Can you please file this at http://bugzilla.lyx.org, > together with a minimal example .lyx file (with .svg file), and a > screenshot of the correc

Re: Handy word list program for indexing

2007-03-06 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
> The one thing this doesn't do is, upon final sort, sort by count descending > but name ascending. Can you think of a way to do that with standard Linux > commands? I am not sure I understand (or maybe I should read this again when I wake up :) Can you give a short example?

Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key

2007-03-06 Thread Roland Schmitz
Hi John, when i'm looking for Symbols, i use http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf Here you ca find "almost everything" ;-} -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Yours Sincerely Roland Schmitz

graphics path

2007-03-06 Thread Rein van den Boomgaard
Dear All, i'm using Lyx quite frequently and like it a lot. I need a lot of figures in my writings and i store them in several directories organized by theme. In LaTeX i use the \graphicspath command to set the path to all the image directories. Unfortunately this does not work in LyX. The edito